Classic British-Trinidadian Film “PRESSURE” Returns to Brooklyn For One Night Only at The Caribbean Film Series, December 5th at BAMcinématek
Press Contact: Romola Lucas – romola@caribbeanfilm.org
“Pressure,” is a hugely significant film and a stunningly complete debut,” says journalist and film programmer Ashley Clark, who curated the film series Space is the Place: Afrofuturism on Film and Behind the Mask: Bamboozled in Focus, at BAMcinématek. “As the child of a father whose parents came to London from the Caribbean in the 1950s, “Pressure,” offers a rare and valuable window into what it must have been like for him to forge his Black British identity in a harsh, rapidly-changing social climate.” Caribbean Film Series producer Curtis Caesar John of the Brooklyn Cinema Collective agrees, remarking, “The generational conflicts between first generation Caribbean immigrants may be similar to that of other ethnicities, but the rhythms and intensity for how they play out in real life, and in this magnificent film, are unparalleled.”
For more information go to bam.org/film/2016/pressure. For overall information about the Caribbean Film Series and the Caribbean Film Academy contact Romola Lucas, at romola@caribbeanfilm.org.
PRESSURE
120 minutes
United Kingdom | 1975
Directed by Horace Ové
at BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
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